Angels give Reid Detmers loads of help in rout of Diamondbacks

Reid Detmers allowed three hits over seven shutout innings to help the visiting Los Angeles Angels to a 7-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second game of their three-game series on Tuesday night in Phoenix.

Detmers (3-5) struck out three without a walk and the left-hander threw first-pitch strikes to 19 of 24 hitters.

Zach Neto homered and tripled, Mike Trout homered and doubled, Logan O’Hoppe delivered three hits, Denzer Guzman contributed two hits and scored two runs, and Donovan Walton finished with two hits and two RBIs for the Angels, who have won five of seven.

Arizona starter Merrill Kelly (5-6) went 5 1/3 innings, allowing six runs and a season-high 11 hits while striking out four and walking one.

The Diamondbacks had won two in a row and three of four.

The Angels scored first for the 10th straight game after Jo Adell led off the second with a double to center. Following a ground out that moved Adell to third, Wade Meckler drove him in with a single to center for a 1-0 lead.

Neto came up with one out in the third and blasted a solo home run deep over the fence in left to stretch the lead to 2-0.

The Angels tacked on another run in the fourth after Guzman reached on an infield single, O’Hoppe doubled down the left field line and Walton grounded a single to right to score Guzman and make it 3-0. But O’Hoppe was thrown out at the plate trailing the play.

Neto tripled high off the wall in center to start the fifth. Trout then stepped up and cranked the first pitch over the wall in nearly the same spot in center for a two-run homer and a 5-0 lead.

The Angels opened the sixth with back-to-back singles from Guzman and O’Hoppe. Kelly departed after getting Walton to foul out, but Trout came through with a two-out double off Ryan Thompson to extend the lead to 6-0.

Walton’s RBI ground-rule double off the warning track in right in the eighth extended the lead to 7-0.

Down 2-0, Adrian Del Castillo lined a single to center to lead off the third for the Diamondbacks, but Neto made a nice backhand play on a grounder by LuJames Groover to start a 6-4-3 double play.

Detmers later struck out Corbin Carroll with runners on the corners to end the sixth.

–Field Level Media